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• Serious concerns over import of Westinghouse’s reactors for the Kovvada nuclear power project | E A S Sarma

  5 August 2023

  From: EAS Sarma Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2023 at 10:31 Subject: Westinghouse’s Vogtle nuclear power reactors- Huge time/cost overruns- Likely implications for proposed Kovvada nuclear power project in AP To: Chair, DAE Cc: Secretary Power , T.V. Somanathan , Cc: Chief Secretary AP , Secretary, Energy - AP , Collector Skl
  E A S Sarma Former Secretary to the Government of India
  To
  Dr A K Mohanty Chairman Dept of Atomic Energy (DAE) Govt of India
  Dear Dr Mohanty,
  I refer to the Nuclear (…)

• Tracing the Genealogy of Contemporary Hindutva Politics | Arup Kumar Sen

  5 August 2023, by Arup Kumar Sen

  Politics of Hindutva represents the dominant paradigm of politics in contemporary India. The eminent historian, Gyanendra Pandey, attempted to locate the making of this paradigm of politics in the article, ‘Which of Us are Hindus?’, carried in his edited book - Hindus and Others: The Question of Identity in India Today (Viking, New Delhi, 1993). His observations and arguments enlighten us about the genealogy of Hindutva politics in modern India.
  Gyanendra Pandey argued: “The natural unity (…)

• Disturbing signs of RSS indoctrinating Police personnel | Arun Srivastava

  5 August 2023

  by Arun Srivastava
  West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee is politically correct in saying that BJP has launched a riot politics. But she did not say that for implementing the politics of riots, the RSS and BJP need a strong band of committed Monus. He is not the only mastermind the saffron brigade has, through its ideological perversion has succeeded in creating a strong band of Hindutva bigots, but the fact which is regrettably ignored while analysing the emerging situation is the (…)

• India’s 2024 General elections: Who is the opposition Prime Ministerial candidate? | Thirunahari Seshaiah

  5 August 2023

  Elections to the 18th Lok Sabha are going to be held in another ten months. It seems that the political parties in the country are sharpening their strategies to win the elections. With the aim of winning the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, both the Congress Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are holding meetings with their alliance parties in a strategy to prevent the BJP from coming to power at the Central for the third time. On the other hand, the Congress party has formed an alliance (…)

• Women Of Manipur | Sagari Chhabra

  5 August 2023, by Sagari Chhabra

  To strip women,
  parade them naked
  and then assault;
  was this the civilization
  that brought the Empire to a halt
  by making salt?
  In Manipur, the Ima market
  led solely by women,
  dressed in lungis:
  red, blue and green,
  had been the cynosure of all eyes;
  who created the divide, o fie,
  between Meiteis and Kuki Zos;
  who turned neighbours
  into warring foes?
  Is it the greed of minerals
  and malachite,
  buried in this land,
  that propelled the powers
  to occupy and mine;
  but (…)

• Illegal Migration Act: Implications for asylum seekers and migrant populations in the UK | Sona Singh

  5 August 2023

  The UK Parliament passed the Illegal Migration Bill in July, after amendments suggested by the House of Lords were resolved over three sessions of what is known in legislative parlance as “parliamentary ping pong.” It is a process of discussions and suggestions before amending a bill between the two houses of parliament. Soon after discussions were completed, the Illegal Migration Bill was sent for royal assent, thereby vindicating prime minister Rishi Sunak’s promise earlier this year to (…)

• Thai democracy faces the elephant in the room | Pavin Chachavalpongpun

  5 August 2023

  24 July 2023
  After the ’judicial coup’.
  The court alleged that Pita, the leader of the Move Forward Party that won the most seats in May’s election in an apparent attempt to undermine political opponents of the old establishment. The future of Pita is unknown at best, or bleak to be more accurate.
  Thai politics was already in a precarious position in the post-elections period after the Senate also blocked the premiership of the progressive leader.
  Pita must secure at least half of (…)

• Reducing the Risks of Nuclear War — The Role of Health Professionals | Kamran Abbasi, Parveen Ali, Virginia Barbour, et al

  5 August 2023, by Arun Mitra

  In January, 2023, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock forward to 90 s before midnight, reflecting the growing risk of nuclear war. The danger has been underlined by growing tensions between many nuclear armed states. As editors of health and medical journals worldwide, we call on health professionals to alert the public and our leaders to this major danger to public health and the essential life support systems of the (…)

• The Story of an Atomic Bomb Survivor in Hiroshima | Masaya Nemoto

  5 August 2023

  On August 6, 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. The nuclear bomb exploded over the center of the city, completely devastating it. The area within 1.2 miles of the hypocenter was entirely leveled and burned. According to the city of Hiroshima, approximately 140,000 people had died by the end of December 1945

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  AIKS Press Release on Communal Violence in Haryana (Aug 3, 2023)

  5 August 2023

  All India Kisan Sabha
  36 Pt .Ravi Shankar Shukla Lane (Canning Lane) New Delhi-110001, email- kisansabha[at]gmail.com
  AIKS condemns Communal Violence in Haryana
  Ensure Stringent Action Against Culprits
  AIKS Urges People to Ensure Peace and Communal Amity
  The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) expresses grave concern over large-scale violence in Mewat and neighbouring areas of Gurugram, Palwal, Nuh and other towns on 31 July and the following days.
  The widespread arson and use of arms (…)